Notifiable Disease Investigations
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The Sedgwick County Health Department's (SCHD) Epidemiology Program tracks and investigates infectious diseases that must be reported by law. These “notifiable” diseases are reported by doctors and laboratories because they can affect the health of the community.
Notifiable Disease Graph
This graph shows weekly disease investigations by Sedgwick County Epidemiologists. See the table below the graph for the list of diseases included.
Notifiable Disease Surveillance by Transmission Table
| Transmission (Spread) | Sedgwick County Notifiable Disease Surveillance* |
| Blood | hepatitis** B and hepatitis C |
| Contaminated Food or Water | amebiasis, cholera, campylobacteriosis, giardiasis, hepatitis A, legionellosis, listeriosis, salmonellosis, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, shigellosis, typhoid fever |
| Respiratory (Cough/Sneeze) | Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease, measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), rabies, rubella, Streptococcus pneumoniae invasive disease, varicella (chickenpox) |
| Vector (Tick or Mosquito) |
anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, dengue fever, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), Lyme disease, malaria, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, West Nile virus |
*See http://www.kdheks.gov/epi/disease_investigation_guidelines.htm for a complete list of notifiable diseases and more information about each disease.
**Hepatitis investigations include past or recent infection. Most cases investigated are people who test positive for hepatitis but have no symptoms.
A subset of the investigations shown on the SCHD website will be cases that meet certain standardized public health definitions.
The subset was published by county by the Bureau of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment through June 2020. (https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/Archive.aspx?AMID=87).
National provisional case counts are published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report tables at https://www.cdc.gov/nndss/infectious-disease/weekly-and-annual-disease-data-tables.html.
Case Definitions are found at https://ndc.services.cdc.gov/.
Rev. 5/24